Two WKU Students Receive Kappa Delta's Top Award

August 01, 2008

Bowling Green, Ky. - For the second year in a row, two members of Western Kentucky University’s Delta Gamma Chapter of Kappa Delta Sorority received the prestigious Corre Anding Stegall Leadership Award, which was presented this summer during the sorority’s National Leadership Conference in Boston.
           
Seniors Diane DeRosa-Reynolds of Union, Ky., and Angelena Edwards of Shepherdsville, Ky., are among 10 young women from across the nation who received the highest individual honor that Kappa Delta gives to undergraduate members. Named for former National President Corre Anding Stegall, the leadership awards are presented each year to the top echelon of Kappa Delta student leaders who have demonstrated high academic performance and outstanding leadership within their chapters and on their college campuses.
           
In 2007, WKU’s Jeanne Johnson and Tori Theiss were honored during the sorority’s national convention in Palm Springs, Calif., and the WKU chapter also was named to the top 10 percent of Kappa Delta’s chapters nationwide.
           
In addition to previously serving Kappa Delta as secretary, Shenanigans chairman and Leadership Excellence chairman, DeRosa-Reynolds has served as Panhellenic president and recruitment chairman, Student Government Association senator and student representative, Southeastern Panhellenic Conference special events coordinator, WKU Spirit Master, LeaderShape advisor and on-site coordinator, Greek Week Blood Drive chairman, High School Leadership Conference student coordinator and  Dynamic Leadership Institute Phase 1 presenter. The sales marketing major also was a member of the Fraternity Expansion Committee, Up ’til Dawn executive board, University Leadership Enhancement Committee, University Complaints Committee and Gamma Sigma Alpha and has been named to the Order of Omega and Greek Hall of Fame.
           
A biology and chemistry major in WKU’s Honors College, Edwards is a recipient of the Regents, Louisville Alumni, Dance Team and Ogden Research scholarships and has been named to the President’s List for academic achievement. Edwards has instructed a Chemistry 109 course and spent a summer in Ecuador studying the culture and ecology of South America. Outside of academics, she is a WKU Spirit Master, member of the Varsity Dance Team, Western Leader for freshman orientation, member of Gamma Sigma Alpha, and a participant in LeaderShape and the Dynamic Leadership Institute.  Angelena served Kappa Delta as vice president of operations and Sisterhood Enrichment Team leader.
           
Kappa Delta Sorority has been making great things happen on college campuses and in communities nationwide since its founding in 1897 in Farmville, Va. The sorority has a membership of more than 200,000 women, 133 active collegiate chapters, and 492 chartered alumnae associations.  Kappa Delta is the creator of National Women’s Friendship Day, and members support these national philanthropies: Prevent Child Abuse America;, Kappa Delta Orthopedic Awards; Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Va.; and Girl Scouts of the USA, through which KDs are providing the Uniquely Me program in partnership with the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. Kappa Delta’s headquarters is in Memphis, Tenn.

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For more information contact:  Sherry Anderson, Communications Coordinator, Kappa Delta Sorority National Headquarters, Phone:  (901) 748-1897, (800) 536-1897, E-mail:  communications@kappadelta.org